Australian tech provider Centorrino Technologies (CT) has teamed open source company SUSE to replace VMware by Broadcom across its enterprise infrastructure.
Centorrino Technologies (CT), a full-service ICT solutions and cyber security provider, said it selected SUSE Virtualisation as a replacement to VMware across its hosted infrastructure platform – avoiding significant cost increases on CT’s current services once completed.
Having run in production for some time, the platform is now ready to be rolled out to customers, with CT set to move thousands of Virtual Machine (VM) instances from VMware to SUSE Virtualisation. CT said the move would see major savings in licensing and subscription costs, and future proofing the platform’s viability and affordability.
It also addresses a range of technical challenges CT was facing, including migrating production VM workloads with minimal downtime, supporting multi-tenant hosting environments and maintaining enterprise-grade availability and resilience. “Central to this has been establishing a repeatable migration framework capable of scaling across hundreds of customer environments,” said CT.
“What Centorrino Technologies has built is a strong example of how partners and end users are responding to the shifting economics of enterprise virtualisation,” said Ben Henshall, General Manager, Australia and New Zealand at SUSE.
“Organisations are actively looking for alternatives, and we’re seeing that demand grow across both our partner and customer base. This migration demonstrates what’s possible when you combine open, enterprise-grade technology with a partner that knows how to deliver it at scale.”
CT serves government agencies, defence and intelligence sectors, financial and professional service organisations, healthcare providers and schools throughout Australia.
“The licensing cost increases from major technology vendors create real pressure for customers, but also the opportunity for change. We needed a platform that offered long-term commercial certainty without compromising on enterprise-grade capability, that ensures our customers keep control of their infrastructure and their costs, rather than being exposed to a single vendor’s pricing decisions. SUSE Virtualisation gave us that, and it has allowed us to build a migration practice that solves a problem we are seeing right across the market,” said Nicholas Iacobucci, Chief Technology Officer at Centorrino Technologies.
CT said it planned to expand adoption of SUSE technologies across its hosted infrastructure platform and customer environments, building repeatable migration methodologies, operational processes and managed service offerings designed to bolster enterprise organisations considering large-scale migration programmes throughout Australia.
